Informational handout from Stearns Coal and Lumber Company with two sticks of dynamite. The handout reads, in part, "Dynamite! The Stearns Coal and Lumber Company announced a plan which will enable certain selected coal dealers to blast their way...

Three-quarter length portrait of stage and screen actor Charles B. Wells, who was born ca. 1851 and died October 14, 1924 in Bayside, New York. Here he wears a suit jacket, vest with watch fob, tie, and striped trousers. He has a mustache, and...

Setting "shot" pipe. Drillers prepare pipe and drill. Drilling is done by hydraulic pressure through small pipe tied onto large pipe. When large pipe is set, the drill is pulled free and dynamite is loaded into large pipe